Word: dens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DEN OF THIEVES by James B. Stewart...
...native Southern Californian. The few people who can claim that dubious honor are drilled from childhood to think of my part of the state as the evil empire. Come to think of it, a former Governor once believed Northern California was a far more dangerous place than that den of evil, Grenada. Since most of the water coming out of the lawn sprinklers in Bel Air and since all the ice cubes solidifying themselves at this very moment in Beverly Hills' kitchens originate in the north, Mr. Reagan, that quintessential Southern Californian (nonnative variety), may yet be proved right. Especially...
...cool, cloistered spaces, the casts of the great bronze doors at Hildesheim, are visited only by a few ghosts, like myself, from the glorious days of Charles Kuhn. "Es ist der Geist der sich den Korper baut" (spirit creates the body) can still be read on the facade, but today's spirit is one of greed. Werner Otto's name could hardly adorn an air-conditioning machine, no matter how expensive...
...Milken's lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, calls Den of Thieves an anti-Semitic book, in part because it focuses heavily on Jewish insider traders...
After reading Den of Thieves, you may in fact wonder whether Milken, whose 10-year sentence made folks gasp, didn't get off easy. Sure it's a waste to have a genius cleaning toilets. But if the downside of crime is appointment to a Treasury post, or some other challenging job, then where is the downside really...